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Photo: Wakasui · CC0Famous people · Holdom, Burnaby
Holdom has one famous person on record
In 1958, the Canadian ice hockey player John Olver was born. Their birth falls between 1946 and 1969. 3 languages have an article about them. Across British Columbia, 144 towns list someone born there.
Born here
1
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
John Olver
3 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1958
John Olver
Most common field
Sports
1 person
The best known
Born in Holdom
Questions about famous people from Holdom
Who is the most famous person from Holdom?
By our measure the best known is John Olver (Canadian ice hockey player); the spotlight above gives the details.
How many famous people were born in Holdom?
Born in Holdom and confirmed by an English or French Wikipedia article: 1.
What is Holdom known for?
Among its famous people, athletes: 1 of the 1. Across Canadian towns the figure is 38%; here, 100%.
Who counts as from Holdom?
A birth counts when Wikidata puts it inside Holdom’s neighbourhood outline (the census tracts it is drawn from), a hospital or district there included, and the person’s English or French Wikipedia article agrees. Those who only moved here are not on the list, and neither are adult performers or people famous mainly for crimes. When a birth is recorded only as a split city (Toronto, Montréal, Ottawa and the others), it stays on the city’s page; a neighbourhood lists only births placed in it.
Why is someone missing?
Some have no birthplace below the province on Wikidata, some were born in a hamlet without a page here, and some have an article that names another place or none at all. The page lists only what Wikidata and Wikipedia agree on, and it follows their corrections at each refresh.
Birthplaces, descriptions, years, occupations and the count of Wikipedia and sister-site articles come from Wikidata (CC0). Each birthplace is checked against the person’s English Wikipedia article, or the French one where English says nothing or has no article; the articles are linked, never quoted. Wikidata’s Statistics Canada code, the place’s name or its point inside the 2021 census outline puts a birth in a town, and a birth given only as a split city stays on that city’s page. Fields are read from the description and occupations, and the list runs by number of articles. “The usual town” is everyone listed across Canadian towns.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).